Cain

Camunda-REST-API-Interpreter to handle common Camunda specific workflow use cases for a more clearly usage by hiding the REST-Calls under the hood.

Covered

• Handle external tasks
• Invoke DMN evaluations

HTTP-Client

Cain.ExternalWorker and Cain.DecisionTable are using Cain.Client.Default for submitting HTTP requests on default. Therefore it's using the Tesla library. If you want to add you own HTTP-Client it has to implement the Cain.Client behaviour and also has to support handling of JSON data.

Using Cain.Client.Default requires to add following configuration in your config.

config :cain, Cain.Endpoint, url: "http://localhost:4004/engine-rest/"

External Task Client

Use Cain.ExternalWorker for referencing your external task function implementation in your application.

defmodule MyWorker do
  use Cain.ExternalWorker, [
    client: My.HTTPClient   # default: Cain.Client.Default
    max_tasks: 5,           # default: 3
    use_priority: true,     # default: false
    polling_interval: 1000  # default: 3000
  ]
  
end

Add register_topics/1 and create a list of a tuple with the following elements:

• Name of the topic that has been given in the BPMN-Process-Model
• Function implementation with a tuple of Module, function and args the topic refers to
• Setting lock duration in milliseconds, defaults to 3000ms

def register_topics do
  [{:my_topic, {MyTopicHandler, :handle_topic, [:my_arg]}, [lock_duration: 5000]}]
end

Response in the referenced function by using the provided API in MyWorker.

Notice: The payload of a topic fetch is always provided as the first argument and needs to be considered on your function implementation

defmodule MyTopicHandler do

  def handle_topic(payload, :my_arg) do

    do_something_with_payload(payload)

    case an_external_service_call() do
      :ok -> 
          # provide a map with atom keys to response with variables
          MyWorker.success()

      {:error, error} -> 
          MyWorker.retry("external_service_error", inspect(error), 3, 3000)

      _unexpected -> 
          MyWorker.create_incident("unexpected_error", "See the logs")
    end
  end

end

DMN Evaluation

Use Cain.DecisionTable and set the corresponding definition_key of the deployed table in the engine.

defmodule MyDecisionTable do
  use Cain.DecisionTable, 
    client: My.HTTPClient   #default: Cain.Client.Default
    definition_key: "MY_TABLE"
end

And evaluate.

MyDecisionTable.evaluate(%{first: 1, second: "Second"})
# {:ok, [%{is_valid: true}]}

The return value depends on the output definition of the modeled DMN table.

Installation

def deps do
  [
    {:cain, "~> 0.3.0"}
  ]
end